Excerpt from History of the English Parliament, Vol. 1: Together With an Account of the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland; From the Earliest Times to the Death of Charles II I now leave this narrative, which I have striven to produce in the true historical spirit and without political bias, in the hands of the reader. Whatever his political views may be, there is much in the stirring record of the British Parliament to make him proud of the ancestors from whose loins he has sprung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.